What's the difference between ale and gale?

Ale


Definition:

  • (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
  • (n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (2) Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “real” ale (more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK ), the 45-year-old organisation has been enduring an identity crisis, and is looking to its members for a solution .
  • (3) Nosheen Iqbal, writer Discovering the Acoustic Tent (and its real ale supplies) After nearly three decades of Glastonbury attendance, this year I finally made it up the hill to the Acoustic Tent.
  • (4) Repeated administration of ALE-36 significantly accelerated the healing of gastric ulcers induced by thermocautery.
  • (5) Normally I'm really interesting to talk to but I just can't right now," one employee, drinking an ale, smiled sheepishly.
  • (6) The relaxation of TV product placement rules raised the possibility that regulars at Coronation Street's Rovers Return would be swapping their fictional Newton and Ridley ale for a pint of Boddingtons.
  • (7) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
  • (8) The local authority stepped in last week to throw a protective arm around the borough’s licensed premises, a move real-ale lobby group Camra has urged other councils to follow in order to slow the closure of pubs for redevelopment.
  • (9) A short stumble from Horfield common, it's the last best stop on the A38 out of Bristol, with its ever-changing ales, wood fires, good food and amusingly graffitied Jenga.
  • (10) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
  • (11) The three other finalists were The Drovers Rest in Carlisle, the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield and The Yard of Ale, a micropub in Broadstairs, Kent.
  • (12) Liam Byrne: Jeremy Corbyn is craft ale of Labour movement Read more Mandelson warned that he feared some moderates in that atmosphere would drift away from the party, leading to the party’s possible disintegration.
  • (13) Nigel Farage must have been smiling to himself as he supped his pint of real ale last night.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brewdog Camden staff react by taking Camden Hells lager off their craft beer menu Peroni and Grolsch owner SAB Miller snapped up Camden’s rival Meantime earlier this year, while Diageo used its Guinness brand as a launchpad for a series of ales and porters.
  • (15) The pub's renowned food includes home-made cheese and onion, steak and kidney and beef and ale pies.
  • (16) When low workloads with ALE and ACE were compared, no significant differences (p greater than 0.05) were demonstrated in any of the variables for men or women.
  • (17) Her husband, the internationally renowned human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, did just that, jailed in August 2011 for four-and-half years on tax avoidance charges that he, and human rights organisations, call spurious.
  • (18) That night we drank local ales in Dirty Sally’s bar with the manager, biker Bill, clad in black leather Harley jacket with long grey hair in a ponytail.
  • (19) Life stress was measured with the Social and Athletic Readjustment Rating Scale (SARRS) and the Athletic Life Experiences Survey (ALES).
  • (20) It's brewed in the town by Cuilán Loughnane, who was inspired to start his White Gypsy Brewery in 2009 after tasting his first pint of real ale in, of all places, Heathrow airport.

Gale


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
  • (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
  • (n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.
  • (v. i.) To sale, or sail fast.
  • (n.) A song or story.
  • (v. i.) To sing.
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
  • (n.) The payment of a rent or annuity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
  • (2) This galE deletion was recombined into the chromosomal gal operons of S. typhimurium and Salmonella typhi Ty2.
  • (3) Large parts of the UK have been battered with a second wave of 100mph-plus gales inside 48 hours, causing serious road and rail disruption as the wind toppled a large number of trees.
  • (4) "The party's response has been absolutely extraordinary," Gale said.
  • (5) • A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale is published this month by Fourth Estate.
  • (6) Nerdy Gales (@NerdyGales) The size of the crowd seems to be inducing the #USMNT to play like it's a scrimmage #USAvUKR @KidWeil March 5, 2014 It’s an eerie atmosphere for sure, but there are so many US players on the field who must know they are long shots for the World Cup squad and that this may be their best, if not final chance to get to Brazil.
  • (7) galE mutants were isolated from three mouse-virulent strains of Salmonella choleraesuis (of group C1, O antigen 6,7) by selection for resistance to 2-deoxygalactose.
  • (8) These mutants had a galE phenotype, as evidenced by galactose sensitivity, altered LPS when grown in the absence of exogenous galactose, and reduced virulence in infant rats.
  • (9) When the justice secretary took to the airwaves yesterday , his purpose was more serious – to blow a gale through a generation of failed thinking on prisons, a failure that started the moment Clarke last lost control of penal policy.
  • (10) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
  • (11) GALE runs on a PC-compatible computer with selected Pioneer LaserDisc players.
  • (12) The vehicle has been trundling around the large Gale crater looking for evidence that Mars was habitable in the ancient past.
  • (13) Vaccination with viable cells of an avirulent Salmonella typhimurium galE mutant provides mice with solid specific immunity against subsequent infection with a virulent smooth strain.
  • (14) The Port of Dover said the weather also brought gale force winds on the Channel while Sunderland's clash with Reading in Wearside was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.
  • (15) In claims fiercely denied by the party, Gale warns Farage: "There is a core faction associated with the party that is being used as a 'Black Ops' dirty tricks team against targets that include party members."
  • (16) The seed for the story came after Gale saw his father's photo in an old high school yearbook and wondered if they would have been friends had they been contemporaries.
  • (17) The unsettled weather looks set to continue throughout this week and into the weekend when strong to gale force southwesterly winds will bring spells of heavy rain across the UK at times, according to the Met Office.
  • (18) Two men were swept out to sea at Brighton beach in gale-force conditions, while two teenagers remained in hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a gritter truck in South Ayrshire.
  • (19) States of emergency have been declared in numerous regions in the North Island, after rivers burst their banks following two days of heavy rain and gale-force winds.
  • (20) Through Connolly, he met George Orwell and Arthur Koestler , who became regular contributors; in later years, he appointed Eric Newby as the travel editor, persuaded Alan Ross to write on cricket and employed Gavin Young and the brilliant but deeply troubled John Gale, whose Clean Young Englishman is one of the finest English autobiographies.

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